From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2005-09-08T05:20:34+09:00
Subject: Re: compiling posgres gem fails on osx


On Sep 2, 2005, at 6:11 PM, Stephan Mueller wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install the postgres gem on OSX with this command:
>
>  sudo ruby extconf.rb --with-psql-include-dir=/sw/include/ 
> postgresql/ \
>   --with-psql-lib-dir=/sw/lib/
>
> This fails with this output:
>
>  checking for cygwin32_socket() in -lwsock32... no
>  checking for socket() in -lsocket... no
>  checking for gethostbyname() in -linet... no
>  checking for gethostbyname() in -lnsl... no
>  checking for sys/un.h... yes
>  checking for socket()... no
>  checking for cygwin32_socket()... no
>
> I installed postgresql8 (plus -dev) via Fink from source. Can somebody
> help me to get this to work?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Steph.
>
>

I recently ran into this problem myself. This page: http:// 
blog.humlab.umu.se/samuel/archives/000019.html helped immensely

The other option is the pure ruby Postgre interface, which I used on  
Windows. (Developing on a Mac, deploying on windows, don't ask.)

gem install postgres-pr